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A glowing neural connectome hovering above a vast landscape of GPU server racks, representing the contrast between biological intelligence architecture and computational brute force

What a Fruit Fly Knows That Your GPU Cluster Doesn't

The Fruit Fly Problem Here's a number that should bother anyone building large language models: 140,000. That's how many neurons a fruit fly has. A hundred and forty thousand. You could fit the entire computational architecture of Drosophila melanogaster into the rounding error of a

Neurobots: The Thesis in a Petri Dish

Neurobots: The Thesis in a Petri Dish

Some scientists at Tufts took a bunch of frog cells, put them in a dish, and the cells built themselves a nervous system. Nobody told them to. Nobody programmed it. Nobody engineered the wiring. The cells just... did it. Grew neurons, formed networks, started firing electrical signals, changed their own